Incredible. *picks up jaw from floor*

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...my gawd, there's more >> mememomi

Other little known facts:

--Owners and slaves participated together in Friday night bowling leagues.

--Slave owners created elaborate theme parks based on story book characters for the enjoyment of children of slave families.

--Most slaves who "escaped" were actually abducted by aliens hired to provide low-wage workers for northern factories.

Hey, mine are as plausible as theirs.

I have to admit that I am always amazed at the rank hypocrisy displayed by these modern day defenders of the free market capitalist system who are also untiring defendants of America’s peculiar institution. Somehow the terms racist or bigot just doesn’t adequately capture the depths of their depravity and their profound and consistent lack of even a modicum of empathy for slaves and the continuing nightmare of its aftermath.

My paternal grandmother’s paternal grandparents were slaves on the notorious Butler and St. Simon’s Island slave plantations, which were located off the coast Georgia. The infamous Pierce Mease Butler owned these plantations, which he had inherited from his grandfather Pierce Butler, who was an original signer of the U.S. Constitution. My grandmother’s grandparents were sold off the plantation in 1859 in what was considered the single largest auction of human beings ever held in the United States. Her grandmother did not make the eventual trip to Louisiana because she was sold off to different owner. We are still trying to discover her fate. Here is an excerpt from the Georgia Encyclopedia article:

"On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest sale of human beings in the history of the United States took place on a rainy racetrack in Savannah. Capturing the event for the New York Tribune, Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name Q. K. Philander Doesticks, noted, "On the faces of all [the slaves] was an expression of heavy grief; some appeared to be resigned ... some sat brooding moodily over their sorrows, ... their bodies rocking to and fro with a restless motion that was never stilled." When the sale was complete, 429 men, women, and children had been auctioned to the highest bidder, netting more than $300,000 and restoring Pierce Butler to his accustomed affluence."

Link to the site:

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-617

“In the late 1830s, slave women on a Georgia plantation owned by Pierce Mease Butler told their pitiable stories of aborted fetuses, difficult births, and infant deaths to his wife Frances Anne Kemble and asked her to help modify their work. The women were essentially correct in believing that a link existed between heavy work and the health of an unborn child, but heavy work is probably most detrimental daring the earlier stages of gestation.”

http://www.victoriaspast.com/StolenChildhood/stolenchildhood.html

So much for the relative benign quality of slavery!

You should also be aware of the second scandal. Much of the material in the pamphlet was plagiarized.

I wrote a pretty thorough entry about this for Mac-a-ro-nies. Having researched the neo-Confederate movement for years, I can assure you that this is just a setback for Wilson and Wilkins. They make their living selling neo-Confederate apologia and material for Christian schools and home-schoolers. "Southern History, As It Was" will be back after the attention dies down.

I also want to write something commending the academics who exposed Wilson and Wilkins as the frauds they are.